jyamaharider713
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- Jul 16, 2018
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Ok so i own a 2005 maxum 20ft bowrider boat that has a 5.7 mercruiser with alpha 1 gen 2 drive it says SE 116 on it. We have owned this boat for only a few months. The kid we bought it form claims he just replaced the whole outdrive not long before he sold it. The prop was new and lower looked perfect.
We were out on the lake tubing yesterday and were probably half throttle and the out drive just make a nasty noise. We immediately shut the boat down. Checked the prop nothing in it. Then went to fire It up and was making a knocking noise from the drive. We limped it back to the boat ramp and pulled the boat out. When we were driving it back you could feel it skipping. When we got home we pulled it all apart and found the gears in the upper half to but destroyed. Missing 2 teeth on the higher gear and tons of metal shavings within all of the oil. I’m not sure what the story is with the gears. Maybe he didn’t replace the upper? I’ve done some research and looks like a rebuild with upper gears is going to run $500 ish plus my time. I’m trying to get some opinions on what to do. Some people say that if your upper gears are shot you should just replace the entire unit ? Entire units are like $1600 ish. What would cause these upper gears to go like that. We really don’t beat the boat. We do load it up with 8 people usually maybe to much weight? The other thing we noticed was when you would put it in forward reverse it would kind of clunk a little didn’t sound like grinding or anything just a little bump into gear? Some people said that’s normal? I’m going to check how many teeth are on the gears in the boat now. Maybe he didn’t put the correct ratio of gears?
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!!
We were out on the lake tubing yesterday and were probably half throttle and the out drive just make a nasty noise. We immediately shut the boat down. Checked the prop nothing in it. Then went to fire It up and was making a knocking noise from the drive. We limped it back to the boat ramp and pulled the boat out. When we were driving it back you could feel it skipping. When we got home we pulled it all apart and found the gears in the upper half to but destroyed. Missing 2 teeth on the higher gear and tons of metal shavings within all of the oil. I’m not sure what the story is with the gears. Maybe he didn’t replace the upper? I’ve done some research and looks like a rebuild with upper gears is going to run $500 ish plus my time. I’m trying to get some opinions on what to do. Some people say that if your upper gears are shot you should just replace the entire unit ? Entire units are like $1600 ish. What would cause these upper gears to go like that. We really don’t beat the boat. We do load it up with 8 people usually maybe to much weight? The other thing we noticed was when you would put it in forward reverse it would kind of clunk a little didn’t sound like grinding or anything just a little bump into gear? Some people said that’s normal? I’m going to check how many teeth are on the gears in the boat now. Maybe he didn’t put the correct ratio of gears?
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!!